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...years ago Sugarman Frank Clifford Lowry was elected president of National Biscuit Co. Roy Everett Tomlinson was chairman. Last week Chairman Tomlinson stepped down to the presidency, President Lowry stepped down to a vice-presidency. Asked the reason, President Tomlinson said: "Throughout the company we are carrying double or combining jobs wherever possible to save overhead. In this spirit the offices of chairman and president have been combined." Marius Boeger, vice chairman of Hamburg-American Line, was elected chairman, succeeding the late Dr. Wilhehn Cuno (TIME...
...from Ferargil. Several good examples by each man were sent to the Museum. Next part of the spree was by the Board of Trustees' Committee on Painting, long a rampart of conservatism. Committee conservatives are Architect Cass Gilbert, Lawyers Elihu Root Jr., William Church Osborn and Sugarman Horace Havemeyer who has given the Metropolitan many a Degas, Manet, Puvis de Chavannes. Modernism might have been doomed but for Committeeman Cornelius Bliss, a recent appointee,* brother and estate executor of the late Lizzie Bliss, benefactor of the Museum of Art. Conscientious, publicity shy, Cornelius Bliss is stanch for his late...
...Francisco storeowner (1856) and then a mighty sugar king. Among these was the hard battle with American Sugar Refining Co., ending with the "Sugar Trust" being driven from Mr. Spreckels' territory. And there was the argument with King Kalakaua of Hawaii which ended in defeat, Sugarman Spreckels returning his medals and title and the King allowing rivals to enter the rich sugar territory. And there was the titanic battle with his son Rudolph over sugar after which the son emerged a victor and millionaire...
...Nabisco president is Frank Clifford Lowry, chiefly known as a sugarman. About 50, neat and reserved, Mr. Lowry moves briskly. Much of his moving has been on the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange of which he was once (1927-28) president. He is a director of several sugar companies including Punta Alegre and Warner. He is president of the latter company. He heads the sugar-broking firm of Lowry & Co., one of whose partners is Horace Havemeyer. Partner Have-meyer's father was once president of American Sugar Refining Co.. a company which in 1925 was reported to have...
...Another son who faced his father is Sugarman Rudolph Spreckels of San Francisco. In sugar and in utilities he defeated his father, Claus Spreckels. His father announced: "My son has beaten me twice. No other man can beat me once." (TIME...